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e. Standing before me is the exact stranger I insult
more handsome than he was then, standing on the other side of the
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s he doi
related to
s their e
n his dressing, you can deduce he's not
my memory of how
as that day made me blus
pplying for the job, what if he
ates me in the pr
t i
esome presence, miss
miling at me with a misch
pte
y call life with a smile on your face, you
n weather is
and stops around February time, but last year's harmattan season didn't start until February of th
th layers of dust, a compl
s during wintertime, but in
if you want to escape the dust, although I was putting on three laye
though I ran a ma
ets had split lips, and some unfortunate
isible on the poor, they are recognize
used the happy kids as I wal
out the cold since they
hem, "we are fine, thank you!!" They cho
I like walking to my mom's shop every morning instead of taking a motorc
when I saw Kachi in his mother's shop,
an enemy, but he's ce
't seen him, knowing it was a futile plan as he has
etentious wife," he cooed pathetically as I
p to see the children, his also t
nwanyim, the more you run from me, t
to his taunt I
ver!" he shouted as
ur shop, I st
s my mom gets a kic
p, I your maidservant has already swept th
know you arrived earlier. I'm I apologize for my ta
ave your time, your mom is expecting you, and you k
s I entered
itutara counter? Federal governmen
of progress, ekwutumekwu, my
bi?, okwalagi," I chuckled
y mom countered as I walked
entitlements were transferred to her younger sister
rive her of her righ
sans, his father was a furniture maker and my father inherit
rked from my thoughts, my mo
your presence," she looked at me as if I
ost I thought, you
still don't go there at all. What were you
tion, I can tell she knows what am up to, but decided to give me a break as
, that when you will truly realize you have a professional mother", she beamed wi
dad, although she doesn't complain much abo
t you and I know am the professional
father for spoiling you rotten with prais
speaks for itself. Good wine doesn't n
th as we got the shop re